AI generated imagery cannot be copyrighted: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-copyright-offic...

Certainly puts us in an interesting situation. It should essentially make all Dall.E generated imagery essentially public domain. Implications are interesting as more images begin to be used in published works rather than just as memes on twitter.

The ruling was that the AI generated imagery can not be copyrighted by the AI. Anyone using a creative tool to create an image can personally have the copyright.

You can just photoshop / modify parts of the generated image and it could then be copyrighted

Yep, and as noted in the article here "slightly modified afterwards" probably covers that base. It'll also be hard to identify AI generated vs human created vs human adjusted as time goes on without flags to designate each as such.

Because of DALL-E 2's license agreement do they have to always include that citation when presenting their logo?

"You must clearly indicate that images are AI-generated - or which portions of them are - by attributing to OpenAI when sharing, whether in public or private."